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Canadian Aboriginal law is the area of law related to the Canadian government's relationship with the Indigenous peoples. Section 91(24) of the Constitution Act, 1867 gives the federal parliament exclusive power to legislate in matters related to Aboriginals, which includes groups governed by the Indian Act , different Numbered Treaties and ...
Albert Lacombe OMI (28 February 1827 – 12 December 1916), known as Father Lacombe, was a French-Canadian Roman Catholic missionary who travelled among and evangelized the Cree and also visited the Blackfoot First Nations of northwestern Canada.
On June 29, 2007, Canadian Aboriginal groups held countrywide protests aimed at ending First Nations poverty, dubbed the Aboriginal Day of Action. The demonstrations were largely peaceful, although groups disrupted transportation with blockades or bonfires; a stretch of the Highway 401 was shut down, as was the Canadian National Railway 's line ...
Potawatomi Chief Wabaunsee (Little Dawn) An image of Chief Pontiac painted by John Mix Stanley nearly 100 years after Pontiac's death. Francis Pegahmagabow , Canadian war hero, shortly after World War I
Ryerson's work at the camp freed Jones to begin taking lengthy missionary expeditions to other parts of Upper Canada. During the period 1825–27, Jones undertook missionary missions to Quinte, Munceytown, Rice Lake and Lake Simcoe. He preached in the native language, a key factor to helping the Indians understand and accept Christianity; small ...
From 1992 to 1994 Albert Lafferty, a Métis resident of Fort Providence, Northwest Territories led research at the old community cemetery near the former Sacred Heart Mission School operated by the Grey Nuns from 1867 to 1960 [101] and the mission's associated hospital. He found that missionaries established the first cemetery there in 1868 ...
The deaths connected with the experiments have been described as part of Canada's genocide of Indigenous peoples. [ 2 ] The experiments involved nutrient-poor isolated communities such as those in The Pas and Norway House in northern Manitoba and residential schools [ 3 ] and were designed to learn about the relative importance and optimum ...
James Evans (January 18, 1801 – November 23, 1846) was an English-Canadian Wesleyan Methodist missionary and amateur linguist. He is known for creating the syllabic writing system for Ojibwe and Cree , which was later adapted to other languages such as Inuktitut .